creator Morrison, Timothy I. creator Nesch, Ivan creator Khelashvili, Gocha An x-ray source for producing a uniformly intense area x-ray beam. The x-ray source includes a vacuum chamber. An area electron emitter is disposed at a first end of the vacuum chamber. A target material is disposed at a second end of the vacuum chamber and spaced apart from the area electron emitter. The area electron emitter and the target material are correspondingly shaped and/or correspondingly curved. The x-ray source also includes at least one high voltage power source. The area electron emitter is electrically connected to a negative pole of one of the at least one high voltage power source and the target electrically connected to a positive pole of one of the at least one high voltage power source. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-20T15:30:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7280636.pdf: 119886 bytes, checksum: 65471690c279d841f2385db1e1d84990 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-20T15:30:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7280636.pdf: 119886 bytes, checksum: 65471690c279d841f2385db1e1d84990 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-09 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-19 2007-10-09 7,280,636 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2656 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access